James Campbell (timber merchant)

He married Mary Isabella Mitchell at Callander, Perthshire, in February 1853 and they arrived in Moreton Bay on 23 June 1853 on the John Fielden.

Although that first venture failed, he started a new business City Lime, Cement and Plaster Stores on the corner of Creek and Charlotte Streets.

Eventually he was providing many of the materials needed for constructing buildings, including timber, bricks, cement and pottery which were made locally, along with imported items.

[3][4] From the early 1860s, Campbell was operating lime kilns at Breakfast Creek and Lytton using shells and coral collected from Moreton Bay.

[4] Campbell purchased a white sandstone quarry at Albion, Brisbane from John Petrie and built a brick and pottery works immediately north of Crosby Park.

However, his employees decided to congregate at the Normanby Fiveways from where they joined with the funeral party to the cemetery, where his friend Samuel Wood Brooks, a journalist, delivered a eulogy at the graveside.